Tissue Talk
Plants & People
Names, Nutrition, & New Growth
The Dirt on Farming
Hormones in action
100

These are the three tissue systems in the plant body.

What is dermal tissue, ground tissue & vascular tissue?

100

This many years ago agriculture began in the Fertile Crescent.

What is 13-11,000 years ago?

100

These are the three essential elements most commonly found on most fertilizer products.

What is N-P-K (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium)?

100

These are the main three soil particles sizes.

What is sand, silt, and clay?

100

Zinnias are pruned to shift apical dominance and stimulate growth to the axillary buds. This major hormone is being redistributed.

What is auxin?

200

These are the three cell types the comprise the plants ground tissue and support tissue.

What is parenchyma, collenchyma, and sclerenchyma cells?

200

This term came about after Norman Borlaug combined dwarf, disease resistant plants with high amounts of fertilizers to try and feed masses.

What is the Green Revolution?

200

These are the three primary tissue systems found in roots.

What is the epidermis, cortex, and vascular cylinder?

200

What plants constitute the "three sisters" commonly grown by indigenous peoples?

What is squash, corn, and beans?

200

This plant hormone can stimulate the development of virgin fruits, and hastens germination as in barley for beermaking.

What are gibberellins?

300

These 2 compounds are found cells of the phloem, are deposited on sieve pores when the plant is injured.

What is P-protein and callose?

300

This institutionalized discrimination (1930-1970ish) by Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) based on race, religion, income, etc, is cited as one of the reasons there is a disparity in tree cover between high and low income neighborhoods.

What is redlining?

300

These are the primary meristems of the root system from which the primary tissues arise.

What is the protoderm, ground meristem, and procambium?

300

This is a measure of the soil's fertility; that is, the soil's ability to store nutrient positively charged ions.

What is cation exchange capacity?

300

This plant hormone prevents germination in seeds.

What is abscisic acid?

400
Following fertilization in the pea plant the embryo goes through this developmental period before the seed matures and can germinate. 

What is embryogenesis?

400

This is the tendency for plants to fall to the background or go unnoticed.

What is Plant Awareness Disparity or Plant Blindness?

400

This is the genus for Hickories.

What is Carya?

400

This is when multiple species are grown together to yield benefits such as reducing weeds, preventing soil erosion, increase soil nutrients, improving yield, etc.

What is intercropping?

400

These are fruits that will continue to produce ethylene following their harvest (bananas, pears, etc).

What are climacteric fruits?

500

This is responsible for producing secondary xylem and phloem in stems.

What is the vascular cambium?

500

Selection in plant attributes that genetically alter plant populations to make them more easily cultivated by humans. For example wheat, barley & flax.

What is domestication?

500

This is the grass family.

What is Poaceae?

500

This is a genetically modified variety of rice that contains beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A.

What is Golden Rice?

500

These are amyloplasts in the rootcap and in the shoots that perceive gravity.

What are statoliths?

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